WORLD SECURITY

Otago Daily Times, Issue 25673, 23 October 1944, Page 4

WORLD SECURITY

MR ROOSEVELT’S SURVEY

NO ROOM FOR ISOLATIONISTS (Rec. 8 p.m.) RUGBY, Oct. 22. President Roosevelt, in an election speech before the Foreign Policy Association on Saturday, said; “ When the first World War ended, I believed—l believe now—that the enduring peace of the world has not a chance unless the nation is willing tq co-operate in winning it and maintaining it. I thought then—l know now—that we would have to back our words with deeds. “A quarter of a century ago we helped to save our freedom, but we failed to organise the kind of world in which “future generations could live in freedom,” Mr Roosevelt said. , “ Opportunity knocks again. There is no guarantee it will knock a third time.” The President referred to the interAmerican conferences beginning at Montevideo in 1933. American action in regard to the Philippine independence, and recognition in 1933 of Soviet Russia. . . , “To-day we are fighting with the Russians against a common foe and a gigantic and joint contribution to victory has been, and will continue to be, given,” he went on. “ Certain politicians, now very prominent in the Republican Party, however, condemned our recognition. I often wonder how Russia would have survived against the German attack if these same people had had their way.” If the Republicans were to win control of Congress in the forthcoming election, said the President, inveterate isolationists would occupy positions of influence and power. “ Can anyone really suppose these isolationists have changed their minds about world affairs?” he added. “Politicans who embraced a policy of isolationism or who never raised their voices against it in our days of peril are not reliable custodians of the future of America.”